Aloha
If we could get a train here in Hawaii (not counting the LKPRR) I’d be first in line.
I ride each time am on mainland. Miss the rails.
Alloha from Hawaii
Leaving on Coast Limited and then onto Sunset to AZ and a return trip in March 2004
You better believe it.[^] I’m bound to a wheelchair and AMTRAK has ALWAYS taken care of me better than anyone else ever has. I would never consider anything else.[:)][:)]
Not travelling for Christmas by Train … have the week off and staying home … but frequently take the train to Toronto … will be taking a train trip this summer to the far north from Cochrane to Moosonee then from Hearst to Sault Ste Marie.
Insteda of travel, I’ll be at the Washington State History Museum running trains on my layout during their “Train Festival.” If you live near Tacoma, Washington, come on down between 11am and 5 pm from Dec 26 thru 31 or Jan 2 thru 4, 2004. There will be others running trains too, including the museum’s own layout featured in Great Model Railroads 2004. Mine was in Great Model Railroads 2003. Happy Holidays.
Unfortunately, no rail travel planned for the near future but intend to do my share of watching with a camera! Interesting how so many TRAINS readers responding to last poll are also photographers! [:)]
My husband, daughter and I are taking the Coast Starlight from Seattle to Oxnard, CA and back (after a 2 week stay in Cali).
My wife and I have no travel plans for the holidays. All of our children are here in town, so there is no need for travel. HOWEVER, if we were to travel, it would definitely be by rail. I didn’t care for aiport hassles before September 11, 2001, let alone now-Amtrak would be the way!!
I’ll be traveling - but unfortunately by air. The way it stands now it takes more than two days to get from Iowa to Florida and another two days to get back. That doesn’t leave much time for the family when you get one week of vacation at Christmas.
My wife & I planned to use 21/22 Chicago to Dallas/Austin/San Antonio over the Holidays. I tried booking space about six-weeks ago only to find out that sleeper space was SOLD OUT for any reasonable window around our intended departure date (+/- 5 days).
So, it will be a long drive.
I’ll be hanging around home for the holidays. Headed for Balto next week, but trip by rail would take far longer than the drive. May hit the light rail while I’m there, though, head for downtown from the BWI area.
We learned not to travel long distances at the Holidays. We took Amtrak to Los Angeles in 1998 for Christmas with family in Arizona and the terminals and the airport was a mess. We returned home in time to avoid an ice storm by just a few hours.
My travel plans include a one-way rail trip on Amtrak’s Auto Train from Sanford, FL to Lorton, VA and a drive homeward post-holiday.
I voted no for two reasons 1 There isn’t a passenger train or any within 200 miles of where I live. 2 We don’t plan any travel
Vacation? What’s that. 
I wish I had the time for a vacation this year (2004). I’d love to take a cross national train trip. Been awhile. Too long.
not unless i can ride the SOUTHERN CRESENT.
yes riding the dutch railways
NO TRAVEL , NO WAY! BUT MY “N” SCALE WILL GET A WORK OUT.
Fraid nothing for me Either
I wish I could! I am in mauritius oct-dec and then maldives jan-apr! very nice but I miss trains. I don’t know when I’ll be in a country that has train service! but sailboats are nice too, even if it is a “job”!